Roofing-tool.



UNTED .iLvA ALLEN, or NORTH ENGLISH, iowa. i -v ROOFING-TOOL'.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Areva ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at North English, in the county of Iowa and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Roofing- Tool, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rooting tools and is ,more'particularly designed for use in securing interlocking metallic roofing plates in position.

The object of the invention is to provide a tool of this character which is of the hammer type and is provided with simple and eilicient means whereby the locks of the roofing plates can be quickly and efficiently straightened if by any chance they may have become mashed o1'- ilattened as the resiilt of handling,

nally as indicated at one face of which is Hush said means also serving to facilitate the placing of the lates in the positions in which they are to e secured. i WVith these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings is shown the preferred forni of the invention.A

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tool constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof showing the same in engagement with the lock of a roofing nlate.

Referring to the figures by c iaracters of reference, 1 designates a hammer head having a central eye 2 into which the handle 3 is inserted and the side faces of the head are flattened and parallel. One end portion of the head is rounded and tapered to constitute the butt 4 of the hammer, while that portion of the head extending in the opposite direction from eye 2 is provided with converging iat faces forming a nose 5, the end of which is beveled as indicated at 6. Extending from the middle portion of the head is a substantially rectangular wing with one of the flat sides of the head l and 's beveledlongitudi- S to produce astraight edge 9, the onposite face of the wing being also beveled i om its edge and in the dire\c.

tion of the eye 2 as indicated at l0. T his\ thereby. v g

Specification of Letters Patent.' Application filed December 5,

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tact with the plate.

`knocking a rooiuig p Patenteasepi. 22, 1908.

1907. serai No. 405,248.

the )urpose of straightening the lock a of a roo. ing plate A the hammer is placed on one side and with the beveled face 8 resting on the plate. The wing is then )iished int-o the lock as indicated in Fig. 2 and the upper beveled face 10 will )ress the free edge of the IV ien the tool is in this position it can also be used for pushing the plate into the position in which it is to be secured. It will be noted that when the face 8 is resting u on the plate A the handle 3 assumes an inc med position and su'llicient room is left between 1t and the plate to permit the fingers lVhen it desired to use the hammer for rns @PATENT oirrron of the hand grasping the handle to extend between the handle and the plate without danger of being injured by coming into con- After the plate has been straightened and positioned vin the inanner described the hammer can be partly turned without changing the position of the hand u on the handle and the butt 4 can be utilizedp plate. By using a tool such as described the work incident to straightening, positioning and securing rooting plates is greatly facilitated and it becomes possible to accomplish more work in a given time than where separate 'tools are necessary for this purpose or where it becomes necessary to change the position of the tool within the hand inorder to perform the dillerent operations mentioned. By referring to the drawing it will be seen that the ends of wing are parallel and are perpendicular to the edge 9 of said wing. Ihis is advantageous because said ends can thus be utilized as pounding surfaces for direction should this be necessary in order to setxit in proper position. By utilizing the wings` for thisA purposeit becomes unnecessary t`o change the position of the hammer within the hand as would be the case should the butt Atbe utilized for knocking the plate in either direction.

Vhat is claimed is:

A rooting tool comprising a hammer head consisting of a nose7 a but-t, and a handle receivinN eye, and a wing integral with the head and ai jacent the cve, said wing being wedgeshaped in transverse section and having 01pposite faces converging to form a straig t edge extending longitudinally of the head,

one of said converging faces nierginginto one for driving the fasteners through the atc laterally in either sideface of the head but inclined the eto and my own, I have hereto affixed my signature the\ot1ilr converging face extending to the in the presence of two witnesses.

eye o )e ing, and the ends o the wing being A AI Vix ALLEN paral `e\"\to each other .und perpendicular to Y 1 5 the straight edge, sind ends constituting YItnessesL' v strikmgfsces. j -Y f Y I-I. NICOLA, @Q j In' testimony that I claim the foregoing as j LLOYD PATTERSON. i 'Y 1 

